California Energy Weekend Update

Builders aim for super-energy-efficient homes Los Angeles Times In coming years, California guidelines will call for ever more energy-efficient homes, with the goal of having all homes built in 2020 being net zero. For now, net zero remains more of an aspiration for the industry, though experts say builders are ...

JPMorgan Chase asks FERC not to revoke its right to sell power Los Angeles Times FERC's order Thursday stems from requests in 2011 by the California Independent System Operator, a grid operator, for information about JPMorgan's energy profits. JPMorgan told the operator that the matter should be referred to FERC, even though FERC ...

California Businesses Protest Forthcoming Cap-and-Trade Program The New American "The fact is that this auction represents a multibillion dollar hidden tax that will harm California businesses and consumers by dramatically increasing energy costs at a time we can least afford it," the letter stated. Virtually all California ...

California Public–Private Partnership Launches Nation's Largest Commercial ... CleanTechnica 14 California counties and 126 cities Sept. 20 launched the first state-wide and the nation's largest PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) program. Aimed at reducing energy and water consumption on commercial properties, the California Statewide ...

Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2050: California's Energy Future California Council on Science and Technology CCST has released the next report in the California's Energy Future (CEF) series, which focuses on exploring possibilities for California's energy strategy through the year 2050. Portraits of Energy Systems for Meeting Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets ... California Council on Science and Technology

Disruption may be required for an energy efficient future Sustainable Business Oregon Sean Penrith is the executive director of the Earth Advantage Institute. Several hundred of us were packed into Merrill Hall at the Asilomar conference center in Pacific Grove, Calif. as Jane Long, chair of California's Energy Future Project, concluded ... Sustainable Business Oregon

Smith: PUC should embrace energy alternatives Austin American-Statesman Remember when California had rolling blackouts? A recent national study found that Texas was the state at the highest risk for blackouts this summer. ... However, instead of promoting energy efficiency — which has been proven to be the cheapest way to ... Easier Distributed Interconnect Emerges in California | Renewable ... The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) last week handed developers of mid-sized, wholesale renewable energy systems, primarily solar, ... www.renewableenergyworld.com/.../easier-distributed-interco... California regulator defends CO2 market design Reuters - ‎ SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 21 (Reuters Point Carbon) - California's top air regulator offered a stern defense of the state's forthcoming carbon cap-and-trade system, battling back against complaints from industry that it will cost jobs and drive up consumer prices ... California Air Resources Board asked to ease cap-and trade program San Jose Mercury News - SACRAMENTO -- Dozens of people, some wearing red "Save Our Jobs" T-shirts, packed a public meeting Thursday to testify that a key component of California's landmark greenhouse gas emissions law will impose enormous costs on them and consumers. California Solar Energy Solutions Provider Launches Guide to Help Consumers ... Melodika.net (press release) - ‎ Saturday, 22 September 2012. Kurios Energy, a California solar power solutions provider for the Central Valley and Bay Area in California, announced today it is releasing a new guide to help consumers easily make the transition to solar power. The book, 10 ... Business groups protest Calif. carbon market Businessweek - ‎Sep 20, 2012‎ SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A key component of California's landmark greenhouse gas emissions law would impose enormous costs on businesses at a time when the state's economy is sputtering, oil refiners, manufacturers and others said Thursday. Petroleum, manufacturing groups protest Calif.'s new carbon market; call it huge ... Washington Post - ‎Sep 20, 2012‎ (Rich Pedroncelli/ Associated Press ) - California Air Resources Board Member Ron Roberts talks with ARB chair Mary Nichols during a hearing held Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, in Sacramento, Calif. The board took testimony from experts and the public on the ... Businesses complain about greenhouse gas allowance auction Los Angeles Times - ‎Sep 20, 2012‎ SACRAMENTO -- Corporate executives and workers from dozens of refineries, glass-makers and other business groups bombarded members of the California Air Resources Board with complaints about an upcoming auction of credits allowing them to ... CARB Chair: cap-and-trade's coming, like it or not San Francisco Chronicle (blog) - ‎Sep 20, 2012‎ CARB has spent years devising America's first full-fledged cap-and-trade plan for cutting the carbon dioxide emissions behind global warming. The system finally goes live on Nov. 14, when the state will conduct its first auction for carbon “allowances” ... Business groups set to blast Calif. carbon market San Jose Mercury News - ‎Sep 20, 2012‎ Posted: 09/20/2012 05:03:42 AM PDT. September 20, 2012 12:4 PM GMTUpdated: 09/20/2012 05:03:43 AM PDT. SACRAMENTO, Calif.—California businesses are planning to testify that the key component of the state's landmark greenhouse gas emissions ... California businesses want changes to cap-and-trade market Kansas City Star - ‎Sep 20, 2012‎ Heavyweight business groups are staging a last-ditch protest against California's new cap-and-trade carbon market, demanding changes to a program they've labeled a job killer.

Manufacturers, oil refiners and others are lining up to testify today ...

Businesses attack California's cap-and-trade auction

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Businesses attack California's cap-and-trade auction. 'Reducing production means laying people off'. Published: 1 hour ago. (Sacramento Bee) Just weeks before California embarks on a historic effort to reduce greenhouse gases, regulators and business ...

LS Power Completes Financing of Centinela Solar Energy

Melodika.net (press release) - ‎

Friday, 21 September 2012. LS Power announced today that it had completed financing and authorized construction of the Centinela Solar Energy Project, a 170 megawatt (AC) photovoltaic solar farm, near El Centro, California. The Centinela Solar Energy ...

Top Corporate Users of Solar Power

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Corporations around the country have been looking to solar energy in an effort to cut costs and boost their environmental friendliness. The Solar Energy Industries Association and the Vote Solar Initiative recently compiled a report that ranked the top solar ...

Energy Generating Company plans 10MW solar project

Coastweek - ‎

NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- Construction of the first large scale solar power project in Kenya is expected to start next year once the Kenya Energy Generating Company (KenGen) selects contractor for the 10MW project. KenGen Managing Director Eddy Njoroge said ...

Smart grid winners' circle: See who's in it this week

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What do GE, Alstom, Survalent Technology, Enbala Power Networks and Space-Time Insight have in common? They're all in this week's smart grid winners' circle with project awards, financing wins or atta boys. And they're not alone; scroll down and over to ...

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